File:Distressing situation of the Guardian sloop, Capt. Riou, after striking on a floating Island of ice RMG PU6024.tiff
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Thomas Tegg (publisher) |
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English: Distressing situation of the Guardian sloop, Capt. Riou, after striking on a floating Island of ice This is a hand-coloured aquatint of the ‘Guardian’ in grave distress after striking an iceberg in the Southern Ocean, in longitude 41 degrees east. The accident happened as she was taking stores and skilled personnel to the straitened and newly established ‘Botany Bay’ convict colony at Port Jackson (modern Sydney). Eleven days out from Cape Town, on 23 December 1789, as she approached the iceberg in order to obtain fresh water, her rudder and part of her keel were torn off when she struck a submerged spur of ice. Through his brilliant seamanship and forceful personality, the commander, Lieutenant Edward Riou, was successful in getting the vessel back to Table Bay at Cape Town by the following February, after half the crew abandoned ship (half of those being lost). This is a later image from one of a well-known series of sensational pamphlets about ‘dreadful shipwrecks’, and not a factually accurate one: the ship is represented more as a frigate than a storeship. The ‘Guardian’ was sold there in 1791. |
| Date | 25 March 1809 |
| Dimensions | Mount: 174 mm x 263 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: Fighting Ships 1779-1786. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/110175 |
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Identifier | id number: PAD6024 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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